Dark Days Are Coming - New Funcom Project

[Surlyboi]

Tyburon - Illuminati

Just sayin'

[Reborne]

Yeah, I'll be on there as Reborne, neither confirming or denying my membership in the Illuminati.

[Ginaz]

So after winning $650 at the casino today (my yearly trip) and having a few drinks at home to celebrate, I got the lifetime sub package.  I really enjoyed the beta and planned on playing a few months anyway.   Hope to see you guys in there. 

Back to celebrating.

[Furiously]

So after winning $650 at the casino today (my yearly trip) and having a few drinks at home to celebrate, I got the lifetime sub package.  I really enjoyed the beta and planned on playing a few months anyway.   Hope to see you guys in there.  

Back to celebrating.

Bets it's F2P before you get your lifetime worth?  Anyone planning on going Templar?

[Falconeer]

Me and a few RL friends are going Templar.
The Cabals are faction restricted, alas. My char name is Lefteye.

I'd try to sum up all the names if you all post it in the next couple of days.

About the f13 Cabal, I'd say that the biggest limitation is the faction. But it doesn't change the fact that due to the serverlerss thing, we can all play together and solve puzzles and do battlefields and dungeons together regardless of the Cabal. If we can create a custom f13 chat channel in game it would be exactly the same as being in the same "guild", except for guild bank and open PvP.

[Tyrnan]

You're damned if you do and damned if you don't, but after a few discussions and reading the forums, we've settled on a new dimension name for the RP dimension, and I think you'll find it very appropriate. 'Arcadia'. We will be keeping Faerie as a non-RP dimension name, so feel free to conquer that one in the name of freedom, justice and the Elvish way.

So there we have it 

[Draegan]

This is coming out at the wrong time.  Closing on my home tomorrow and I will have zero time for anything.  Instead, I'm going back to playing rift casually with 1.9.  The wife says no to new video games right now. :sadface:

[Njal]

I'll be on Arcadia as either Njal or Ranieth was planning on being a Dragon but I wouldn't mind hooking up with some F13 folks.

[trias_e]

I'll be trias.  What server/what faction I'm still totally undecided on.  Templar or Dragon most likely.  Would definitely be down for some sort of f13 cabal as sadly none of my RL gaming friends have been interested in even trying this game (damn you Guild Wars 2).

[Miasma]

I will be on Huldra, name Sideline, Dragon faction.

I'm in a mature mostly casual guild called The Old Timer's Guild that I only mention because I imagine it would be a good fit with most of the people on this board.  There are a few thousand members spread out across most every major mmo, we will have a cabal for each faction but most seem to be going Templar.  Probably a couple hundred or so people will be in TSW.

On second thought when I say "a good fit for people on this board" that is only in respect to them being mature, constructive and not filled with assholes.  In terms of attitude they aren't at all cynical, they are optimistic and happy overall which actually clashes with my mindset so the rare time I post I have to tone things way way down.  Their forums/guildchat are very sugary by comparison, you definitely don't call someone out as a mouthbreathing waste of life over there.

[TripleDES]

Whoa, I managed to reserve a decent name that's also doesn't end random numbers. This is almost impossible. No one buying the game or what?

[Falconeer]

So far:

(Players list updated in next page's post.)


It's about a dozen of brave shit eating fellas.
I'll keep updating the list with new names and new infos when you have it. Such list is actually useful for once, since you can add friends to play together regardless of the server or the faction.

[Shatter]

Im offering throat punches to anyone who thinks they will play this past their free month

[Falconeer]

If anything it is worth to play it until the story is over. As I said, it's mostly a traditional single player adventure game thrown in a multiplayer environment. I think its longevity will be laughable at best, but if will take one or two or three months for the main story to be completed t still has to be determined.

It's not your traditional MMORPG, it's hardly a MMORPG, and it would do so much better without a monthly fee, but do not forget that this "single player" adventure comes from the author of The Longest Journey.

Nothing wrong in playing games for a month or less. They are still worth the box cost.

[Lantyssa]

Seska 'Stheno' Karantanija -- Not sure if Dragon or Templar.  Thematically and temperament-wise Dragon fits me better, but Templar gets the coolest jacket.

[Miasma]

Im offering throat punches to anyone who thinks they will play this past their free month

I figure I will play it for two months which is great because that is exactly when Guild Wars 2 comes out.

[Falconeer]

Yeah, pretty much my plan. Guild Wars will be my game for a long while. This is PERFECT to fill that hole.

Also, added Lantyssa to the list.

[Njal]

I might play longer if the world PvP is fun and satisfying. Mind you I don't expect that will be the case.

[TripleDES]

I'll be Asphyxia playing as Illuminati on either Arcadia or that German server. I'll be making this dependent on lag.

[Lantyssa]

Oh, it will be Arcadia.

[palmer_eldritch]

I've just got round to reading the dev post Falconeer posted a page back and a couple of things really stuck out:

Next to each of your friend's names in your friends list, there will be a button that says "Meet Up". Click it, and you will be teleported to your friend’s location, in his dimension [NB - dimension means server]. You will get the same prompt if you get invited to a team. As long as you guys stay teamed, you will stay in his dimension and will always end up in the same zone. You can also freely trade with each other. After you disband the team, the next time you teleport (for instance going back to the hub) you will automatically be placed in your home dimension's hub.
 
. . .

Let's say you create a cabal with your friends in the Kobold dimension but you would like to invite your friend that made a character on the Huldra dimension, you can invite him and he will be a fully fledged member of your cabal. He will be in the same cabal chat, and have access to the same cabal bank. You can team with him, do dungeons with him and trade with him.

That sounds very cool to me. The only time you are stuck with your server choice is in the PvP zones.

[Fargull]

At some point I will be in game on Grimm as that appears to be the server the crew I am joining are going to be running around on.   No clue as to a character name, but we are planning Illuminati.

[HaemishM]

Im offering throat punches to anyone who thinks they will play this past their free month

I'll play it when it goes F2P in six months.

[Rasix]

Im offering throat punches to anyone who thinks they will play this past their free month

I'm not sure why anyone should care if they more than a month out of a MMO.  You always tend to get more than enough content to cover the purchase price. 

I would care if the only month you get out of it is a bug ridden, low availability, slog.  This does have the possibility of that happening with the dev being  Funcom.  I had a pretty solid technical experience with the beta, but quests and mob AI could be a bit (ok majorly) buggy.

[Ingmar]

I may eventually try it but I will wait at LEAST 3 months after launch. And I blame Rasix entirely for even thinking about it.

[WayAbvPar]

I may eventually try it but I will wait at LEAST 3 months after launch. And I blame Rasix entirely for even thinking about it.

Right there with ya. His tepid endorsement was the only reason I even bothered with the beta!

[Furiously]

For 50 bucks I know I'll get at least 50 hours out of the game.  Then again I plan on being in gw2 in two months. So it makes sense to buy now in my book. I don't expect robot Jesus just something to spend time on.

[Rasix]

Well, if my house purchase ends up getting cancelled, I'm buying it tomorrow.  Just because I'll need something other than LoL and Skyrim to cheer me up (I don't drink).   Otherwise, I'll be waiting a little bit.  No rush, and I can wait for beta quality bugs to get stamped out and for load issues to go away.

Of course, my ability to resist purchasing games I'm interested in is pretty low.  I cave easily. 

[Dark_MadMax]

I preordered it and will try to finish the whole thing in a free month. GW2 has better combat and better pvp,  but I do want to see whole TSW because it is imho worth it. It has much better story and world than SWTOR

[Riggswolfe]

As one of the few F13ers that was left cold by GW2 I'll be playing this for a decent length of time I think. I'll be on Arcadia server.

The only two names I have reserved are MkVenner and Aeric. I'm going to shoot for TheWolfe as well if I can snag it when early access starts assuming noone else has reserved it. I was unable to as name reservations didn't like the capital in the middle. In fact MkVenner is Mkvenner.

[Amaron]

What time does the headstart start?  I haven't really looked into all of that.

[Surlyboi]

Friday.

[Amaron]

Friday.

Actually I meant what time of day but I found it.   9AM PDT

[patience]

*reads up on Dimensions and single server*

*Gets off of fence*

Vinra Dolgar - Templar

[Ginaz]

Not sure what server I'll be on but I reserved Ginaz and will probably be rolling Templar.  I didn't care for the background of the Illuminati.  They just seem like a bunch of dicks.  I might give the Dragons a quick try to see what they are like as I didn't get to try out them during the beta weekends.